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British authorities plan to as much as double the price of cheap alcohol to battle the nation's skyrocketing problem of binge drinking. The innovative scheme is intended to help prevent thousands of deaths and hospital admissions every year, according to government officials. A levy may be imposed on the alcohol industry to prevent companies from making windfall profits off of the new prices. Money raised would be earmarked for public health campaigns warning of alcohol dangers.

The British are incapable of learning tat binging is not cool. They extended pub hours to cut down on last call drunks, and it did nothing. So penalize them. It's not about freedom. Your right to get f..ked up ends when you hit my car or kill my loved ones.

MDK

Jan 14, 2010 12:29 PM CST

My new years res of cutting down on my alcohol is already paying off!

Spudsy

Jan 14, 2010 7:45 AM CST

Let 'em have some medicinal weed. Wife just got back from Cali and was astounded at how well that system is working. She has a relative whose pain management no longer involves addictive, life sapping stronger drugs. Illinois is still in the dark ages.